In the future, emerging bone grafting technology may limit the need for autogenous bone donation and limit complications due to bone graft harvest.

Injury to the lateral femoral cutaneous nerve (Bernhardt's syndrome) or meralgia paresthetica occurs after harvest of ... cortex of the iliac crest is harvested for bone graft.

A novel synthetic bone graft showed ... rate with the synthetic graft vs. approximately 30% with the bone autograft. “There is a clear benefit of this material over iliac crest, which was ...